The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) has issued a statement regarding it's position on legal gender recognition. In the statement they urge governments around the world to "eliminate unnecessary barriers, and to institute simple and accessible administrative procedures for transgender people to obtain legal recognition of gender, consonant with each individual’s identity, when gender markers on identity documents are considered necessary."

Amongst the barriers and problems they identified, several of them are part of UK law:

"No particular medical, surgical, or mental health treatment or diagnosis is an adequate marker for anyone’s gender identity, so these should not be requirements for legal gender change."

"...choices of identity limited to Male or Female may be inadequate to reflect all gender identities: an option of X or Other (as examples) may be advisable."

Information for binary transgender people in Wales regarding breast, cervical, bowel and abdominal aortic aneurysm screening services. Much of the information in this guide is applicable to the rest of the UK. Unfortunately the guide doesn't mention non-binary people, however they may find that they are able infer the information relevant to them.

UK Trans Info believe that 18 week Referral to Treatment legislation applies to NHS England's Gender Identity Services, despite repeated claims by various NHS bodies stating that they are exempt. This short document produced by us collates the main evidence.

This booklet was produced by young trans people and gathers stories, sources, facts and tips that these young people believe might be useful to anyone questioning their gender. This project was funded by the Department of Health's Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Advisory Group in 2007.

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